Excessive Examination: Media Guide Roster

First things first, to obtain your very own digital PDF copy of all 208 pages of the 2011 Michigan Football Media Guide, click here.

Now, on to the excessive examination.

Incoming freshman numbers:

No.

Name

Position

Height

Weight

3

Russell Bellomy

QB

6-3

178

5

Justice Hayes

RB

5-10

175

8

Blake Countess

DB

5-10

175

20

Tamani Carter

DB

5-11

175

21

Raymon Taylor

DB

5-10

170

24

Delonte Hollowell

DB

5-9

170

35

Greg Brown

DB

5-10

180

36

Joe Kerridge*

FB

6-0

239

38

Thomas Rawls

RB

5-10

220

40

Antonio Poole

LB

6-2

210

44

Desmond Morgan

LB

6-1

225

45

Matt Wile

K

6-2

210

47

Frank Clark

LB

6-2

210

58

Chris Bryant

OL

6-4

330

60

Jack Miller

OL

6-4

268

61

Graham Glasgow*

OL

6-6

316

62

Dallas Williams*

OL

6-3

312

71

Gary Yerden*

OL

6-5

328

79

Tony Posada

OL

6-4

330

82

Chris Barnett

TE

6-5

250

92

Keith Heitzman

DE

6-3

237

95

Chris Rock

DE

6-5

250

97

Brennen Beyer

DE

6-3

225

First thing that stands out to me is where is redshirt-freshman OL Christian Pace and where is incoming LB Kellen Jones? It is rumored that both have been battling injuries, Pace at UM, and Jones in HS. There is no word on this yet, but expect this to address at Big Ten Media Days.

Second thing I notice, they assigned #21 to DB Raymon Taylor. This signals to me that there is no plan to retire Desmond Howard's number. Sigh.

Also, UM has added some walk-ons. Including a FB, Joe Kerridge. And a trio of OL, including Graham Glasgow who was just recently said he would be walking-on at OSU. [HT: TWB]

And of course, there are a few jersey number changes to existing players, bullet style:

• CB JT Floyd switched from 18 to 12.
• CB Terrance Talbot switched from 37 to 22, which is now the same # as LB Jake Ryan and Darryl Stonum (who is on the roster, so those off-the-field issues haven't ousted him from the roster so far). Stonum is not such an issue because Talbot will not play offense. But it is an issue on defense because Jake Ryan is expected to see the field extensively this season.
• S Josh Furman switched from 14 to 6.
• Teric Jones was 14 last year, he has no number on the current roster.
• QB Jack Kennedy was 25 and is now 14. How and why a Michigan QB was #25 in the first place is beyond me.
• S Thomas Gordon was 30 and is now 15.
• LB Isaiah Bell was 34 and is now 26.
• LB Merell Evans switched from 9 to 51. This could be so he can see some special teams action as Martavious Odoms will be wearing his #9 on punt/kickoff returns.
• G Ricky Barnum was 56 and will switch to outgoing Stephen Schilling's 52.
• TE Brandon Moore will now be 89, he was 88.

Caught Ira doing a nice rundown of roster changes and going into great detail on each player this morning on WTKA. It's worth a listen: